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The remaining men were members of various factions of the Bagdad and Calor gangs, which controlled the drug routes through the Darién Gap. Authorities immediately classified them as "armed and extremely dangerous."

As night falls over La Joya today, the searchlights still sweep the jungle perimeter. The guards know that somewhere out there—perhaps in a favela in Brazil, perhaps in a cocaine lab in the Andes—the remaining "Invisibles" are still breathing free air. And as long as one fugitive remains uncaptured, the legend of the will continue to haunt the isthmus.

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